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NextD18:
Thermal camera indeed.

Camera wey go soon catch Coronavirus

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday said apart from inadequate personnel, the Nigeria Police Force needed no fewer than 1,000 armoured personnel carriers and 250,000 assault rifles with corresponding ammunition.

Adamu, who disclosed this at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs, tagged, ‘Repositioning the Nigeria Police for an Enhanced Service Delivery, said the country needed 2,000,000 tear gas canisters and smoke grenades.

Other equipment the IG said the force required included 200,000 riot gunners and smoke pistols, 1,000 tracking devices, and 774 operational drones, among others.

He also lamented that poor remuneration scared best and suitable applicants away from the police.

As part of efforts to address problems confronting the NPF, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), last year gave the force the go-ahead to recruit 10,000 police officers.

Besides inadequate manpower, the police are also battling with other problems including dilapidated barracks, poor remuneration and low budgetary allocations.

The PUNCH had on August 23, 2019 reported that ten months after the President approved an increase in police salaries and allowances, policemen had yet to receive the pay rise. The President had in November 2018, approved an enhanced salary structure for the NPF.

At the House of Representatives event on Tuesday, the IG, who was represented by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Operations), Abdulmajid Ali, stated that an aggregation of reports by the various police reform committees highlighted the major challenges hindering an optimal service delivery by the police.

In the document he presented to the committee, a copy of which our correspondent obtained , Ali said the challenges included gross underfunding, which he said was caused by inadequate budgetary appropriation and non-release of the limited appropriated funds.

He noted that the budgetary system still remained the envelope system, which he said was not capable of taking care of neither the needs nor wants of the force

itsme01:
he is an officer meaning he earns as high as 200 - 250 if he is within ASP - DSP bracket so what is special in a 2001 Toyota Highlander SUV that you can get for 1.5m.. go to states like Oyo , Lagos and see what SARS operatives really drive.. Benz , and top range new model Toyotas ... that guy is not with SARS but just a regular divissional police harassing people claiming SARS


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Mediarero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPN_78C_dtU

Governor Seyi Makinde has warned the indigenes of Ogun state to shun the violent demonstration over the death of Remo Stars FC footballer Tiamiyu Kazeem by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad SARS. The Governor urged everyone to be law abiding and allow Law enforcement officials carry out their duty to avoid further breakdown of order in the State.

Whiteangel1234:
who say he own it ? maybe on security duty for his oga

GreatResearcher:
U and I

GreatResearcher:
Use ur head. Jesus is fake.

President @MBuhari meets with Service Chiefs and Inspector General of Police this afternoon, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

madridguy:
Bros, if boko boys want him alive, they will. Those boys are highly connected. Am sure he's not on their list.

How the weather there, heat here na die.

madridguy:
Baba forget, nothing will happen to him so far he's doing the right thing and he did not fall anyone to get the position.
People going around with hundred of DSS are afraid of their past deed.

madridguy:
Dangerous as in how bros?

Almajiranci is our pride and our honor. Yes! we agreed that the program should be reformed but it should not be condemned. No sane society will destroy its culture but seek to reform. All advanced countries value their heritage, why not us?

I disagree with Emir of Kano on this.

It’s God’s destiny that children are birthed to their specific parents & it’s their responsibility to shape the vision of who their child might grow to be

They chose Almajiranci. The want their children to profess Quran, how is that a crime?

They’re also Nigerians with choice.

If not for hypocrisy, some of you send their children to nursery school as young as a year old, yet you condemn the practice of almajiri. You send your kids to boarding school, yet you asked parents of almajiri to keep their kids under them. How do you want them to learn?

Most of you just don’t get it.

You kept confusing almajiranci with street begging. Street begging is not requirements for genuine Almajiranci.

If Govt can provide feeding program for students of other schools & allow boarding, why not to almajiri too? Are they not Nigerians?

Sometimes when I see the fake news peddlers like Work Bank or IMF calling some 10 million out of school children from the north, Very fake news.

Most of these kids are almajirai & they go to almajiri schools, if they really care about them, they should invest in reforming them.

Why would someone chose to asked a father of children who wished to send their wards to learn Quran to be arrested? Wasn’t that insensitive?

We should be guided accordingly.

Almajiri is who we are, where we came from. We should not be ashamed of associating with almajiri & condemning them to obscurity. Almajiri’s are sons & daughters, they are human, they are, above all, Nigerians.

They are students, unlike you, they chose the Quran, respect them.

My son, Bapetel, 7 proudly studying Quran in a typical almajiri way, using his Allo. This was in my house in Yola.

In doing so, he’s continuing a tradition of his family.

Real almajiris don’t beg. Begging was a bad practice introduced in almajiranci. It needs reform not ban.

Almajiranci is our pride and our honor. Yes! we agreed that the program should be reformed but it should not be condemned. No sane society will destroy its culture but seek to reform. All advanced countries value their heritage, why not us?

I disagree with Emir of Kano on this. pic.twitter.com/rWwEf6R0F0

— Adamu B. Garba II, Msc, MNIIA, FIDPM (@adamugarba) February 21, 2020

allthingsgood:
Ok if he's your voice why are u blabbing. Your voice has spoken, so shut it!

allthingsgood:
Is it ur voice

allthingsgood:
Shame on whom Is it buhari that pays them. What about u that voted them in

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said it is wrong for Nigerians to perceive the National Assembly as being “highly overpaid” for doing little.

He said the lack of trust in the lawmakers had made their critics not to see the enormous work they were doing for the country.

Buhari said this in Abuja on Wednesday when the House of Representatives launched The Green Chamber Magazine, a publication by the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs.


At the event were the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who represented the President; Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, representing President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; Governor of Katsina State and former Speaker of the House, Bello Masari; Governor of Imo State and former member of the Senate, Hope Uzodinma, among others.

Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila; and Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, led principal officers and members to the event.

Buhari, speaking through Mohammed, said the parliamentarians did not share money without working.


He said, “Hitherto, the public perception of the National Assembly is that of a bicameral legislature where overly comfortable and highly-overpaid members merely stuff wads of currency notes into their pockets for little work done. This wrong perception has resulted partly from the lack of understanding of the enormous work of lawmakers, especially outside the glare of television cameras.

“But with a magazine that will be the authoritative source of anything that goes on in the House – motions being moved, bills being passed, national issues being discussed and constituency projects – the public will be better informed on the activities of the House, and this will in turn reflect in an improved public perception.


“In addition, it will help the House to tell its own story, rather than relying on others to take charge of their narrative. It is said that no one can tell your story better than you.”

A former Director of Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Commission and Director of the Kenya School of Laws, Prof. Plo Lumumba, who was a keynote speaker at the event, asked if the lawmakers were following the footsteps of Nigeria’s founding fathers who, he said, had a clear vision for the country.


He said, “I read your great founding leaders. I read the works of Nnamdi Azikiwe and I listened to him in those early days. He was as eloquent as he was passionate in telling Nigerians and Africans – because he was called the Zik of Africa – that leadership is about service. This magazine is an occasion for you to demonstrate to Africa that you are servant-leaders.

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“I did not only read about Nnamdi Azikiwe, I also read about Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in his younger days – eloquent and passionate about Nigeria. You may not have agreed with all that he said and did, but you cannot deny the fact, the clarity of vision and the need for marshalling the people as the only antidote to the problems that have afflicted Nigeria, and by extension Africa.


“Now that you have been given the honour and privilege of serving Nigeria, now that Nigerians and Africans refer to you as honourable members, the question is: are you honourable members or horrible members? The question as to whether you are honourable members is determined by the service that you render to the people.”

In his remarks, Gbajabiamila stated that Nigeria would not have returned to democracy without the role played by the press.

He said, “I can say with absolute confidence, that our democratic settlement could never have been achieved without the noble daring of the press. Those unsung heroes who understood the power of the written word and wielded it in passionate denunciation of the tyranny that sought to consume us all.”

gratiaeo:
Sarrki have not been fully delivered from the spirit of of zombie. he thought being a Buhari supporter makes him more knowledgeable than supreme court justice

fergie001:
Yes.....if they feel it is at variance to the constitution as Justice G O K Oyewole posited.

ChristianNorth:
1. Electoral law is not part of our constitution. A constitution is the body of law that states how a state will be constituted and governed. Every other laws draws their legitimacy through the constitution. The first thing a military government does is to suspend the constitution or a part of it in order to have legitimacy. Other laws are not suspended.

2. Only the Supreme Court does through legal instrument called judicial precedent and when they do, it becomes binding and law on its own unless a new law is passed by the legislatures.

3. It is just to formalize it and nothing more.

4. At the time it is signed.

Bayelsa judgment is apt if you are not sentimental. The judgement sacking Lyon was a pre-election matter meaning APC shouldn't have been on the ballot.

Being on the ballot then disqualified is different from being disqualified before the ballot. The Supreme Court only upheld a pre-election judgment of the High Court

ALTERNATEID:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lawyard.ng/flashback-federal-high-court-invalidates-section-140-1-2-of-the-electoral-act-amendment-2010/amp/